He spent a great deal of time working on this. I commend him for his thoughtful and unique proposal, something that we have to look at very closely, Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said on the Senate floor. Im heartened by what I read. This is a serious proposal, and I commend the Republican leader for coming forward with it.

McConnell laid out his plan on Tuesday as he signaled bipartisan negotiations to raise the debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline were beginning to look increasingly pessimistic. His proposal, which he referred to as a last-choice option, would give President Barack Obama new power to raise the nations $14.3 trillion debt ceiling without corresponding spending cuts.

Senator MItch McConnell (D) needs to resign today and join the Democrat Party he loves to his very core!!! And...he should drag weak sister, crying John Boehner with him!!! Both should resign in shame!!! They should be destroying Obama instead of kissing his you know what. What disgraces these two traitors are!!!!

If the Republicans cave on this it will be the end of the Republican Party. The historic level of win in 2010 was because of the out of control government expansion by Obama-Pelosi-Reid. If the response is to give Obama carte blanche on spending then the Republicans may be around for the next election cycle or two but after that will be as numerous on the ballot as the Whigs.

STOP SPENDING! DEFUND all socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. Give free citizens back the $ they were forced to put into these socialist programs and SHUT THEM DOWN.

Legislatures (state and federal) can be part-time jobs with 1/10th pay, NO retirement, NO perks, NO insurance. Get a job. Pay for your own crap, you POS politicians.

...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...

Come to think of it, that is exactly what Obama is pushing for. His social security and default scare tactic is to get the Republicans to cave knowing that is his only chance of re-relection. The Republican base will abandon the party and the âanybody but Obamaâ votes will be split among Republican and Tea Party candidates. On the other hand, if the Republicans prevail in this fight Obama may lose some of his base but will take credit for any improvement in the deficit and economy. Still, I would rather see a NO to increasing the debt limit and the Republicans directing the Treasury to pay the debt, social security and medicare, and active duty soldiers first out of current revenues. We would have a balanced budget amendment without the amendment.

Okay, could those who are saying the McConnell Option is really a politically sly move that us dumb Freepers just dont understand please, please pay attention here?

Please?

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They are not reading your post just yet. They are still getting their instructions from the minor party officials or government apparatchiks who keep them on payroll. This afternoon, they will sally forth from their cubicles to do psyop battle again.

McConnell devised his rope-a-dope plan to disguise his enthusiastic support for raising the debt ceiling by diverting the blame away from the GOP. In other words, this miserable creep is outright telling conservatives to go to hell and that he fully intends to support the globalists intention to bankrupt our economy.

Show your anger in public by engaging in loud discussions with your wife and/or friends so you can be overheard explaining how Obama and his globalist cadre of czars and fellow Marxists in both parties are transforming our country through regulation and total disregard for our Constitution.

The House needs to take the pressure off of Mcconnell and, instead, put that pressure on Reid and Obama by:

(1) passing an itemized spending bill that decreases federal spending in 2012 by a significant amount

(2) authorizes an increase in the debt ceiling by the same significant amount and

(3) legally requires the Executive branch to prioritize its cash disbursements after August 2 as follows:

(a) Federal Debt Service
(b) Social Security payments, government pension payments
(c) Defense Department salaries and payments on DD contracts.
(d)
...
(v) foreign aid — after a 50% cut
(w) the EPA’s budget — after a 50% cut in headcount
(x) agricultural subsidies, price supports and other free market-evading schemes — after a 50% cut
(y) subsidies for “green energy research” after a 50% cut
(z) payments to the UN and any of its affiliates after a 50% cut

IMHO, that is the only way the GOP can protect itself from losing the Media’s current version of the “rope-a-dope” game.

I understand that the GOP wants to “look like” adults who are trying to negotiate in good faith with the Democrats.

However, since the Democrats have no interest in good-faith negotiating, it is now time for the GOP to “act like” adults and just CUT THE SPENDING!

If the Democrats in the Senate want to explain to their constituents in the next election just WHY, for example, they opposed cutting foreign aid payments to China — just let them.

I listened to some Fox pundits commending this plan because it "gives ownership" of the debt to the liberals. They praise it for being a "political capital" winner. How stupid. The liberal spenders on both sides have ownership of the debt already today and waste way too much time pointing at each other. The republican team doesn't need any more political capital than they already have, and 2012 will prove it. And We the People don't care who takes the blame -- we blame them *all* -- we just want someone to fix it. Removing the checks and limits imposed on the liberals having no honor fixes NOTHING. They will be more than happy to abuse your trust once more and make the problem even larger for the next guy.

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posted on 07/13/2011 10:38:07 AM PDT
by so_real
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